MACON, Ga. — A rainbow forms when sunlight enters a raindrop. When this happens, sunlight bounces around the raindrop and changes speed and direction. That's called refraction. These changes also ...

The higher your vantage point, the more likely you’ll see more of the rainbow’s circle. Chen Hui/VCG via Getty Images The legend goes that there is a pot of gold hidden at the end of every rainbow.

KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Did you happen to notice a strange, horizontal-looking rainbow cloud in the sky on Monday? Many people contacted the WATE 6 On Your Side Storm Team asking about it. It looked like a ...

Why? When the raindrops reflect the sunlight into the colors of the spectrum, it does so at a 42 degree angle. But when the sun is higher than 42 degrees above the horizon, any rainbows arc created ...

Rainbows can occur anywhere light and water droplets cross paths, even at night. A celestial light show was captured in California's Yosemite National Park recently, one of the “very few waterfall ...

Many of our viewers have noticed rainbow clouds over the past few days. This is actually a rare phenomenon called "cloud iridescence". This happens when sunlight is diffracted off of tiny water ...

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